AL7 Album Speculations Thread

I think that’s the point though is if she were to release the songs quicker then hopefully she wouldn’t be over them. For example, had she released an EP of songs like Bright and the others about Lyme that we never heard, it would have made sense for her to release those songs when she was still in the thick of that situation, then 2 years later release HAW as the version we got with the love songs and what not. Artists today release music as they write/record it precisely for this reason, so they can release it in real time as they’re feeling these emotions. Waiting 2-3 years to release albums is old school now.

At the pace music releases are going, I’d say she’s too late for an EP (it should’ve come out late 2019). Albums shouldn’t take more than two years in between to be released. And we know we’re not getting an album by February next year. She’s going too slow. If you want to survive in the music industry, unless you’re an artist like Eminem who can release an album every 10 years and still get #1, you’ve gotta keep the pace or you’re out.

She shouldn’t take more than the summer to release the lead single and the album in the fall next year. And I agree that she should start recording/releasing songs leading up to the actual album next year. It’s what like 90% of artists do.

Yeah...but strategic wise, it's better to release half of the album before the album. We are not in the 00's anymore and people want something new basically every month if not every week. We waited a week for the HAW mv and it fell like a year because people are used to get both msuic and music video at the same time now.

Same with msic, if you release a single, what's the point of getting the whole album the next 2-3 months? you kinda give the whole cake at once. It's better to keep feeding your fandom little by little so they keep the hype alive.

I know it's a pain in the ass for most of us. I like full albums and i like them to be cohesive and well thougth and i love seeing the booklets and having the CD and basically the excitment of listening to the whole album. Like if you watch a movie for the first time. It's a mess if you already watched parts of the movie i know.

But in music...well, you gotta sell, and unless you're Adele, you're not gonna sell the whole album anyway. It's better to give singles and try to make them hits and profit of them as much as possible and then release an album bc the fans will buy it anyways.

And to be honest, even if i like full albums and i enjoy lstening to them without having heard anything, considering it's Avril i wouldn't mind if she does that strategy. She takes too long to release albums so doing it this way, the wait wouldn't be as painful.

Because ok, she releases a single; 2-3 months later the whole album and then what? Nothing new for the next 2-3 years (if lucky) unless she makes a WE remix of a song. It hasn't worked for her so far.

I prefer getting "spoilers" of the album and rather than enjoying the experience of listening to a full album brand new, i will enjoy the experience of the "process of releasing a new album" idk if that makes sense, it's kinda watching a TV show instead of a movie u know? It's like reading manga where it comes weekly or monthly by chapter and you can't get the whole book before it's finished.

I mean, it's movie vs TV show for me. But in my case, if the TV show it's worth it, i will patienly wait for it and watch it as it comes.

I don't care that Avril takes a long time to release a new album, but as you say, she should release new music in the meantime. Its mistake is that it disappears years, and I think that one of the reasons that it was losing popularity is that. Hopefully the collaboration with mod sun will be very soon and will be well received. May it help her motivate herself and release more music soon. I do not know in what phase the new album will be, but I am afraid it has only just begun .. Knowing her .. it will only have thousands of letters written in a notebook .. Hopefully it will hurry. If her don't have the desire and motivation to create a new album, it will be difficult. I'd like john feldmann and travis barker to help her.

I see the point but I feel it maybe (in the case of the Lyme at least) doesn't take into account that certain life events such as illness are more personal than others and are also likely painful to bring up in a big way like releasing a "personal" song to the public. Especially if you haven't yet had any distance from it or time to reflect and are still in the middle or only just past that situation. Different people deal with events in different ways and it's possible she was just not ready back then and was making the music for herself as a way to cope/process rather than for public release as a product. Not saying that she can't and/or other artists haven't but it's in my opinion a valid reason for leaving seemingly "good content" unreleased to the public.

Yeah that was sort of my point about HAW and why she didn't release a lot of the more personal songs sooner or at least put them on the album. I understand if it's something she really doesn't want to talk about, but that was kind of the point of the album, except she only really had 2 songs that talked about it. And I'm not saying the whole album needs to be about it, but if the whole theme of the album is about it and then there's only like 2 songs, something isn't adding up. Don't act like the album is about that theme but then refuse to discuss it. She pulled that a lot in interviews this era where people would ask her personal questions about Lyme, since you know, the main single was kind of about that, but she would deflect a lot and refuse to go that deep into her answers. If you don't want to get too personal with this stuff, maybe don't make an album about it. She tries to have it both ways and that's just kind of stupid.

She managed to write half an album about her divorce, and yeah that's a totally different thing from being bedridden and sick, but it was still a personal thing she went through and she didn't have a problem talking about it then.

There’s also Push and I Love You, Everybody Hurts can kind of apply too.